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...Seaver would be voted the N.L.'s finest pitcher two more times, strike out 200 or more batters nine years in a row, compile four 20-win seasons with the Mets and on my fifth birthday, he would strike out a major league record 10 consecutive battery and finish the contest with another record--19 strikeouts in a single game...
Getting traded for Puleo, McClendon and Felice--three players whose greatest claims to fame are getting traded for Tom Seaver--signalled the beginning of Seaver's decline...
...Seaver would eventually take a 614 winning percentage into this season, although he pitched for a combination of teams that played a few percentage points under 500 when he was with them. He possesses the highest winning percentage differential (.117) in major league history...
Even the great Walter Johnson, cursed with the uniform of the Washington Senators, did not rise as consistently above the lackluster play of his teammates as did Tom Seaver...
...that's not what I'll remember about seeing Seaver that evening in Fenway...